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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi struggled to answer questions Sunday about harassment allegations against Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.

Pelosi’s double standard: Naked, shameless partisanship

May 31, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

It's amazing how complicated simple principles can become when they're inconvenient to your team. On Sunday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi created a mess for herself by insisting on NBC's...

Judge Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Alabama, speaks on Nov. 14, 2017 at the God Save American Revival Conference at Walker Springs Road Baptist Church in Jackson, Ala.

Taking harassment seriously requires serious distinctions

May 31, 2019 at 4:21 p.m.

There's a consensus aborning: There should be zero tolerance for sexual harassment, exploitation and violence of any kind. Enthusiasm for the new dawn varies widely. Some think it's a great...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie speaks to supporters at an election night rally on Nov. 7, 2017, in Richmond, Va. Gillespie lost to Democrat Ralph Northam.

GOP can’t afford to chase away its own

May 31, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.

Politics is about addition, not subtraction. I don’t know who first said it (the internet offers many possibilities), but it’s an iron law of politics, not just democracy. You gain...

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., speaks during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at C.B. Smith Park in Pembroke Pines, Fla., on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016.

Could it be that both political parties are doomed?

May 31, 2019 at 4:27 p.m.

For all the obvious reasons, the Republican Party gets most of the attention these days. For starters, it controls the White House, the Senate and the House, and the party...

A heroin user prepares to shoot up on the street in a South Bronx neighborhood which has the highest rate of heroin-involved overdose deaths in the city on October 7, 2017, in New York City.

Legalization isn’t the solution to the opioid crisis

May 31, 2019 at 4:25 p.m.

One painful aspect of the public debates over the opioid-addiction crisis is how much they mirror the arguments that arise from personal addiction crises. If you've ever had a loved...

Steve Bannon, former strategist for President Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally for Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Self-anointed rainmaker Bannon only dances during cloudbursts

May 31, 2019 at 4:13 p.m.

A Washington lobbyist once told me that the first rule of rainmakers is, "If it starts to rain, dance!" In other words, if you're hired to get something done, by...

In this Nov. 14, 2013 file photo, producer Harvey Weinstein attends the New York premiere of "Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom" in New York. Weinstein faces multiple allegations of sexual abuse and harassment from some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

Weinstein scandal leaves a trail of hypocrisy

May 31, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

If hypocrisy were a greenhouse gas, the ice caps would be gone by now. Let's start with the obvious: Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein wasn't fired for being a pig; he...

Dozens of people attend a vigil remembering the 58 people killed in Sunday's shooting in Las Vegas and calling for action against guns on Oct. 4, 2017, in Newtown, Conn.

Politicians and guns: Follow the votes, not the money

May 31, 2019 at 4:16 p.m.

An old rule of thumb holds that when someone says it's not about the money, it's really about the money. But there are exceptions to almost every rule. The National...

Dogs’ love of man isn’t just a con job

May 31, 2019 at 4:18 p.m.

One of my favorite kinds of news stories is the report of a new scientific study that verifies the obvious. You've seen them. New research finds that heterosexual men are...

Desperate for a win, Trump shafts his own party

May 11, 2019 at 4:16 a.m.

The news that President Donald Trump abandoned Republicans to strike a deal with congressional Democrats on a three-month extension of the debt limit yielded a predictable response from his predictable...

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